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Lot 35 - LOUIS XII AND ANNE DE BRETAGNE 1498-1515 + FELICE. LVDOVICO. REGNATE.DVODECIMO. CESARE. ALTERO. GAVDET. OMNIS. NACIO. "Under the happy reign of Louis twelve all nations enjoy another Caesar" Bust of King Louis XII, wearing the crowned mortarboard and the collar of the Order of Saint Michael. Fleurdelisé field. Below, lion walking left. R/. + LVGDUN. REPUBLICA. GAVDETE. BIS. ANNA. REGNANTE. BENIGNE. SIC. FVI. CONFL. ATA. 1499. "When the Republic of Lyon was rejoicing in the second reign of the good Queen Anne, I was thus melted 1499". Crowned and veiled bust of Queen Anne. Field strewn with lilies and ermine spots. Below, lion walking left (emblem of the city of Lyon). Mazerolle 27. 140. Bronze medal 1499. Later cast. Ø 113.68 mm; 472 g Two fine realistic portraits. A fine example of this very rare medal with an attractive brown patina. (The blanks have been cleaned and scraped; a few dents on the edge and scratches behind the portrait of Anne de Bretagne). This medal was presented to the sovereigns by the city of Lyon in 1499, when they entered the city on March 15, 1500. It was produced by several Lyon artists: Nicolas Leclerc, Jean de Saint-Priest, Jean and Colin Lepère. Anne de Bretagne married Charles VIII in 1491. But she remained Duchess and Sovereign of Brittany. Then, in 1498, Charles VIII died accidentally. Anne returned to her duchy. In 1499, Anne became Queen of France again, marrying Louis XII, who had hastily repudiated his first wife. The duchy remained separate from the crown. Finally, in 1514, Anne de Bretagne died and her daughter, Claude de France, inherited the duchy. She married François d'Angoulême, the future François I. In 1532, Claude ceded her duchy to the crown. François I had this definitive union of Brittany and France ratified by the Parliament of Vannes. A bronze medal depicting the King and Queen Louis XII and Anne of Brittany, 1498-1515

Estim. 4 000 - 6 000 EUR

Lot 52 - SET OF THREE SCULPTURES OF HUNTERS, SÈVRES, LATE 19th CENTURY in bisque, two holding rifles and the third a hunting horn. They stand on blue oval bases adorned with a gold princely crown. The figures are engraved: D. 90, D. 92 and D. 99, The bases marked: RF doré à Sèvres 92 in red. (The three figures are damaged and missing, one base is chipped). (Sonneur: the horn broken into three pieces, chips on the bell, the bell detached). (Hunter with rifle no. 1: the rifle broken into several pieces and formerly restored, missing). (Hunter with rifle n° 2: the rifle broken into several pieces and formerly restored, left hand broken and glued back together, missing). A Sèvres cookie set of three hunters, dated 9, late 19th century H. of figures: 36 CM - H. 14,17 IN. Total H. with base: 42 CM - 16.5 IN. L. of bases: 27.5 CM - 10.8 IN. On November 3, 1846, the Duc d'Aumale's commissioning secretariat informed the director of the Sèvres manufactory that the Prince intended to come to Sèvres the following day "to choose the design for the dessert service that the King has kindly granted to His Royal Highness". A note dated November 4, 1846 details the pieces of the "surtout de table ordered by S.A.R. Mgr le Duc d'Aumale": at that date. The set was delivered to Chantilly on May 10 and is still kept in the office at the Château de Chantilly. The original "surtout des chasses", sculpted by Blondeau after Jean-Baptiste Oudry, whose composition could vary, continued to be produced at the Sèvres manufactory until the end of the 19th century.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 500 EUR

Lot 69 - MARIUS JEAN ANTONIN MERCIÉ (1845-1916) David defeating Goliath Model created in Rome 1869-70; published by Barbedienne (1810-1892) from 1875. Bronze with brown patina Signed "A MERCIE" on the terrace Bears the founder's stamp "F. BARBEDIENNE. Fondeur" on the back of the base (Small deformation of the sword) David defeating Goliath, bronze sculpture with brown patina by Marius Jean Anthonin Mercié HEIGHT 62.50 CM - WIDTH 24.6 IN. Related work Antonin Mercié, David, circa 1872, bronze, H. 184,1 ; W. 76,8 ; D. 83,2 CM, Paris, Musée d'Orsay, inv. RF 186. Related literature Florence Rionnet, Les bronzes Barbedienne, l'œuvre d'une dynastie de fondeurs (1834-1954), Paris, Arthena, 2016, model listed under no. 1072, p. 372. With this shipment from Rome, Antonin Mercié met with immediate success and recognition from the State, which awarded him the Légion d'honneur and commissioned a bronze version in 1872, which was placed in the Musée des Artistes Vivants in 1874. It was also a popular success: the work was reproduced in all the newspapers. Bronze reductions multiplied, and the Barbedienne foundry produced six versions in different sizes. On December 18, 1916, the newspaper l'Écho reported a news item that summed up the general craze for this figure: "The most popular statue made by Antonin Mercié is certainly his 'David vainqueur'. The little Italians who sell plaster casts in the streets of Paris almost always carry several models of this figure in their baskets. [...] " Antonin Mercié's contemporaries saw in this sculpture, sent from Rome in 1870, an echo of the events that were shaking France at the time. After the Prussian victory, the French spirit was rising and already looking forward to a forthcoming reconquest. Mercié saw in the biblical hero an expression of this hope. He makes David a personification of France and Goliath a symbol of the Prussian oppressor. Mercié's use of the biblical subject follows in the footsteps of Florentine sculptors of the Renaissance, notably Donatello, who gave his David a civic and political dimension. From the Florentine master, Mercié also takes on the graceful allure given by the canon of the body and the slight contrapposto. To this youthful gentleness, Mercié added more dynamic and realistic details, making his sculptures popular with the Third Republic. In the wake of this David, Mercié received numerous commissions for public monuments exalting the fatherland and its heroes.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 79 - PIERRE JEAN DAVID D'ANGERS (1788-1856) Suite of six bronze medallions with brown patina and gilded bronze surrounds - Portrait of Jacques-Antoine Manuel (1775-1825) Titled "MANUEL" on the left side and signed and dated "DAVID 1831" below the edge of the neck. Diam. 14 CM - 5.5 IN. and total diam. 15.9 CM - 6.2 IN. - Portrait of François-Vincent Raspail (1794-1878) Titled "Raspail" on the left side and signed "DAVID" below the neck edge Diam. 15.1 CM - 5.9 IN. and total diam. 16.9 CM - 6.6 IN. - Portrait of Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889) Titled "Chevreul" on the right side and signed "DAVID" and dated (illegible) below the neck cutout. Numbered "1435" in white paint on the reverse. Diam. 15.7 CM - 6.1 in. and total diam. 16.9 CM - 6.6 IN. (Worn patina) - Portrait of François Arago (1786-1853) Titled "F. Arago" on the right side and signed and dated "DAVID 1832" below the edge of the neck. Diam. 14.9 CM - 5.8 IN. and total diam. 16.3 CM - 6.4 IN. - Portrait of Friedrich Stammann (1807-1880) Titled "Friedrich Stammann" on the left side and signed and dated "DAVID 1833" below the neck cutout. Diam. 14.6 CM - 5.7 IN. and total diam.: 15.9 CM - 6.2 IN. - Portrait of Casimir Périer (1847-1907) Titled "Casimir Périer" on the left side and signed and dated "DAVID 1833" under the neck cutout. Worn patina Diam. 15.4 CM - 6 IN. and total diam. 16.9 CM - 6.6 IN. A suite of six patinated bronze medallions by Pierre Jean David d'Angers Related work - Pierre Jean dit David d'Angers, Manuel, before 1856, bronze medallion, diam. 14 CM, Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv. DA 62 E. - Pierre Jean dit David d'Angers, Raspail, 1833, bronze medallion, diam. 16.3 CM, Paris, Musée Carnavalet, inv. S.1876. - Pierre Jean dit David d'Angers, Eugène Chevreul, 1834, bronze medallion, diam. 16.1 CM, Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv. DA 15 B. - Pierre Jean dit David d'Angers, François Arago, 1832, bronze medallion, diam. 15.5 CM, Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv. DA 36 A. - Pierre Jean dit David d'Angers, Friedrich Stammann, 1833, bronze medallion, diam. 14.7 CM, Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv. DA 9 E. - Pierre Jean dit David d'Angers, Casimir Périer, 1833, bronze, diam. 15.8 CM, Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv. DA 61 F.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 81 - ITALIAN COLLECTION, 19th CENTURY, AFTER PIETRO TACCA (1577- 1640) Chained captives Pair of bronzes with brown and gilded patinas On wooden bases painted in imitation of marble and porphyry Pair of bronze sculptures with brown and gilded patina, 19th century Italian school, after Pietro Tacca HEIGHT 44 CM - H. 17,3 IN. Reference work Pietro Tacca, Monument to Ferdinand Medici, 1620-1623, Piazzetta della Darsena, Livorno Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1904) Born in Colmar, where his family had settled in the 17th century, Auguste Bartholdi trained in Ary Scheffer's studio, who recognized his talent for sculpture, which he then studied with Jean-François Soitoux. After a highly formative trip to the Orient with painter Jean-Léon Gérôme in the 1850s, Bartholdi returned to France and took part in a number of public competitions. He was particularly sought after by his native town, for which he erected a monument to General Rapp in 1854. In 1857, the town of Colmar commissioned him to erect a monument to Colmerian Admiral Armand Joseph Bruat, a hero of the French Navy and the Crimean War who had died two years earlier. While complying with the Colmar mayor's wish to erect the municipality's very first continuous fountain, the sculptor conceived an ambitious five-part initial monument project: the figure of the victorious admiral stands at his command post on the ship's deck, holding a telescope and a map with an anchor at his feet. The statue overlooks a circular basin adorned with the city's four coats of arms framed by a sea monster, and divided into four sections on which allegorical figures inspired by antiquity recline. The water is to flow through four antique trireme prows. The project was immediately approved by the municipality, but the lack of financial prospects led to objections and delays. As the project had to be simplified, Bartholdi made a number of modifications, notably the figures in the basin, symbolizing the four continents the Admiral had travelled to as a servant of France. Again for reasons of cost, in 1861 the Committee asked Bartholdi to abandon these allegorical figures, which were ultimately not removed thanks to a fortunate anonymous donation (actually from his mother). In 1863, Bartholdi exhibited the model at the Salon. The monument was finally erected in bronze for the statue of Bruat, and in Vosges sandstone for the elements of the basin, and inaugurated on August 21, 1864. Unfortunately, the monument in its original state is no longer known, as it was partially destroyed on August 30, 1940 by the German occupying forces. The heads of the Continents were salvaged, however, and are now housed in the Bartholdi Museum in Colmar. In 1958, the monument was rebuilt around Bruat's bronze statue, the only original element preserved, on a fountain surrounded by new stone allegories by sculptor Gérard Choain and architect Michel Porte. These two heads in patinated plaster correspond to the preparatory and final versions for these heads of Africa and America, which underwent a veritable rollercoaster ride from conception to preservation. These two works are rare testimonies to the artist's creative process, and fortunately complete the meagre corpus of works, along with the preparatory model in patinated plaster and the sandstone heads of the Continents preserved at the Musée Bartholdi in Colmar, concerning the conception of this monument, which is considered a milestone in the artist's career. As the artist's specialist Robert Belot points out, Bartholdi conceived not only this monument to a local hero, but also his first work "with a philosophical resonance and global scope", conveying in it the message, to anyone who would see it, of his political commitment to the struggle against slavery, his support for abolitionist thinking and universalist values.

Estim. 5 000 - 8 000 EUR

Lot 82 - AUGUSTE BARTHOLDI (1834-1904) Head of America circa 1856-1863 Patinated plaster in preparation for the Bruat monument, Colmar (Minor accidents) Head of America, sculpture in patinated plaster by Auguste Bartholdi, circa 1856-1863 HEIGHT 58 CM - H. 22,8 IN. Provenance By oral tradition, acquired by the previous owner directly from the descendants of the Bartholdi family. Related works - Auguste Bartholdi, Statue de l'amiral Bruat, 1857-1864, bronze, Champs de Mars, Colmar ; - Auguste Bartholdi, Projet pour le Monument Bruat, tinted plaster model, 1856, Musée Bartholdi, Colmar; - Auguste Bartholdi, Tête de l'Afrique, Fragment de l'ancienne fontaine, pink sandstone, 1863, Musée Bartholdi, Colmar; - Auguste Bartholdi, Head of America, Fragment of the old fountain, pink sandstone, 1863, Musée Bartholdi, Colmar. Related literature - Stanislas Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'École française au dix-neuvième siècle, t. I, edition of p. 65 ; - Jacques Betz, Bartholdi, Les éditions de Minuits, Paris, 1954, pp. 46, 47 and 49; - Robert Belot and Daniel Bermond, Bartholdi, Perrin, 2004, pp.117-119; - Robert Belot, Bartholdi, l'homme qui inventa la liberté, collection Biographies et mythes historiques, Ellipses, 2019, pp.159-169, 314, 527. Of rare modernity and powerful forms, this plaster head of America corresponds to the definitive state of the Allegory of the New Continent. America is "represented by a young man whose appearance still has something of the savage about it; with his left foot he pushes aside old idols, under his elbow a cogwheel symbolizes industry, and an oar, the genius of navigation". His forehead is topped with a star. This star originally adorned the forehead of the woman who was to represent Europe "as a symbol of the light of which Europe is the center". While it has been said that this added star was a Masonic sign, a discreet sign of Bruat's commitment to Freemasonry, its transfer from the forehead of "Old Europe" to "Young America" takes on a highly symbolic and precursory dimension in the gesture of Bartholdi, who, from this time onwards, wished to convey a humanist message through art. More than a decade before Bartholdi, close to the abolitionist movement, became close to Édouard de Laboulaye, a moderate republican who saw America as a model of liberty in 1865 and proposed his Statue of Liberty project, he presented here an optimistic image of the Continent, symbolizing the democratic ideal and the welcome of immigrants.

Estim. 30 000 - 50 000 EUR

Lot 83 - AUGUSTE BARTHOLDI (1834-1904) Head of Africa circa 1863 Patinated plaster in preparation for the Bruat monument, Colmar (Minor accidents) Head of Africa, sculpture in patinated plaster by Auguste Bartholdi, circa 1863 HEIGHT 58 CM - H. 22,8 IN. Provenance By oral tradition, acquired by the previous owner directly from the descendants of the Bartholdi family. Related works - Auguste Bartholdi, Statue de l'amiral Bruat, 1857-1864, bronze, Champs de Mars, Colmar ; - Auguste Bartholdi, Projet pour le Monument Bruat, tinted plaster model, 1856, Musée Bartholdi, Colmar; - Auguste Bartholdi, Tête de l'Afrique, Fragment de l'ancienne fontaine, pink sandstone, 1863, Musée Bartholdi, Colmar; - Auguste Bartholdi, Head of America, Fragment of the old fountain, pink sandstone, 1863, Musée Bartholdi, Colmar. Related literature - Stanislas Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'École française au dix-neuvième siècle, t. I, edition of p. 65 ; - Jacques Betz, Bartholdi, Les éditions de Minuits, Paris, 1954, pp. 46, 47 and 49; - Robert Belot and Daniel Bermond, Bartholdi, Perrin, 2004, pp.117-119; - Robert Belot, Bartholdi, l'homme qui inventa la liberté, collection Biographies et mythes historiques, Ellipses, 2019, pp.159-169, 314, 527. This head represents a black man with powerful, hard features, frozen in an expression that is at once dignified, proud and bitter. In the abolitionist context of the 1860s, Bartholdi offered both a powerful image of the African victim of slavery but determined to free himself from its oppressive chains, and his first work conveying his political commitment and attachment to universalist values. The impact of this representation of Africa was also immediate for certain personalities adhering to the same values, such as Dr. Schweitzer, physician and philosopher, future Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1952, whose Bartholdi Museum preserves a moving testimony, entitled 'Am I in the grip of a dream or a hallucination' and fully transcribed in Robert Belot's 2019 biography: "... What I look upon as the noblest jewel in Colmar is "le Nègre" (a term of the time transcribed verbatim to remain faithful to the original text) who with his hands crossed above his knees the deep dazed gaze is lying at the foot of the Admiral. Yes, this "Nègre" is the noblest, most original work of our sculptural age. I know of no statue that has caused me such marvellous emotion, that moves me so deeply, to the very depths of my soul. The truth of nature and the truth of the ideal are blended to such a marvelous degree...".

Estim. 30 000 - 50 000 EUR